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Friday March 29, 2024. 01:56 PM
Christian Schaller writes about the desktop-oriented work aimed at the upcoming Fedora 40 release. Another major feature landing in Fedora Workstation 40 that Jonas Ådahl and Ray Strode has spent a lot of effort on is finalizing the remote desktop support for GNOME on...
Thursday March 28, 2024. 09:31 PM
On March 21, Redis Ltd. announced that the Redis 'in-memory data store' project would now be released under non-free, source-available licenses, starting with Redis 7.4. The news is unwelcome, but not entirely unexpected. What is unusual with this situation is the number of...
Keith Fiske gave a talk (with slides) about the state of partitioning — splitting a large table into smaller tables for performance reasons — in PostgreSQL at SCALE this year. He spoke about the existing support for partitioning, what work still needs to be done, and...
Version 4.20.0 of the Samba Windows interoperability suite has been released. Changes include better support for group-managed service accounts, an experimental Windows search protocol client, support for conditional access control entries, and more.
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (perl-Data-UUID, python-pygments, and thunderbird), Mageia (clojure, grub2, kernel,kmod-xtables-addons,kmod-virtualbox, kernel-linus, nss firefox, nss, python3, python, tcpreplay, and thunderbird), Oracle (nodejs:18), Red Hat (.NET ...
Wednesday March 27, 2024. 04:51 PM
The PostgreSQL community is dealing with the loss of Simon Riggs, who passed away on March 26: Simon was responsible for many of the enterprise features we find in PostgreSQL today, including point in time recovery, hot standby, and synchronous replication. He was the found...
Jason Nucciarone and Felipe Reyes gave back-to-back talks about high-performance computing (HPC) using Ubuntu at SCALE this year. Nucciarone talked about ongoing work packaging Open OnDemand — a web-based HPC cluster interface — to make high-performance-computing...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (composer and nodejs), Fedora (w3m), Mageia (tomcat), Oracle (expat, firefox, go-toolset:ol8, grafana, grafana-pcp, nodejs:18, and thunderbird), Red Hat (dnsmasq, expat, kernel, kernel-rt, libreoffice, and squid), and SUSE...
Tuesday March 26, 2024. 11:59 PM
Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.8.2, 6.7.11, 6.6.23, 6.1.83, 5.15.153, 5.10.214, 5.4.273, and 4.19.311 stable kernels. Each contains a long list of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
The GNOME project announced GNOME 46 (code-named 'Kathmandu') on March 20. The release has quite a few updates and improvements across user applications, developer tools, and under the hood. One thing stood out while looking over this release—a major emphasis on Flatpaks as t...
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (kernel), Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (webkitgtk), Mageia (curaengine & blender and gnutls), Red Hat (firefox, grafana, grafana-pcp, libreoffice, nodejs:18, and thunderbird), SUSE (glade), and Ubuntu (crmsh, debian-goodies,...
Monday March 25, 2024. 06:35 PM
The first-ever NixCon in North America was co-located with SCALE this year. The event drew a mix of experienced Nix users and people new to the project. I attended talks that covered using Nix to build Docker images, upcoming changes to how NixOS performs early booting, and...
The 6.9-rc1 kernel prepatch was released on March 24, closing the merge window for this development cycle. By that time, 12,435 non-merge changesets had been merged into the mainline, making for a less-busy merge window than the last couple of kernel releases (but similar to...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cacti, firefox-esr, freeipa, gross, libnet-cidr-lite-perl, python2.7, python3.7, samba, and thunderbird), Fedora (amavis, chromium, clojure, firefox, gnutls, kubernetes, and tcpreplay), Mageia (freeimage, libreswan, nodejs-hawk,...
Version 29.3 of the Emacs editor has been released: Emacs 29.3 is an emergency bugfix release; it includes no new features except a small number of changes intended to resolve security vulnerabilities uncovered in Emacs 29.2. Those vulnerabilities mostly have to do with...
The 6.9-rc1 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus Torvalds described some rather large updates to the core kernel code that are coming for 6.9: The timer subsystem had a fairly big rewrite, to have per-cpu timer wheels to improve performance of timers, which can be a...
Friday March 22, 2024. 01:50 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, pillow, and thunderbird), Fedora (apptainer, chromium, ovn, and webkitgtk), Mageia (apache-mod_auth_openidc, ffmpeg, fontforge, libuv, and nodejs-tough-cookie), Oracle (kernel, libreoffice, postgresql-jdbc, ruby:3.1,...
Thursday March 21, 2024. 04:07 PM
While a programming error in the kernel may be subject to direct exploitation, usually a more roundabout approach is required to take advantage of a security bug. One popular approach for those wishing to take advantage of vulnerabilities is heap spraying, and it has often...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (pdns-recursor and php-dompdf-svg-lib), Fedora (grub2, libreswan, rubygem-yard, and thunderbird), Mageia (libtiff and python-scipy), Red Hat (golang, nodejs, and nodejs:16), Slackware (python3), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-azure,...
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